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Hamilton College was well represented at the 15th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held on April 19 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., with 11 students giving talks. 

Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, has been appointed by the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board to the Oneida Lake Watershed Advisory Council, a panel of government, NGO, scientists and local planning board members. The OLWC meets every four months to review issues related to the development, environmental impacts, funding initiatives, and other concerns involving the Oneida Lake watershed.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has been speaking about the significance of the 1968 Columbia University student strike, led by the 1960s radical group Students for a Democratic Society. On Saturday, April 26, he will be on a panel titled "The Legacy of the Student Movement" at Columbia University, part of a three-day 40th anniversary commemorative event titled "Columbia 1968 and the World."

Hamilton College alumnus and Charter Trustee Stephen Sadove '73 and his wife Karin have committed $4 million to renovate the College's Emerson Literary Society building (ELS). The Sadoves' gift will enable the College to create and renew space for expanded collaboration among all student groups with the goal of making the facility a hub for student activities on campus.

Back-to-back state championships, a regional title and an unblemished record so far in 2007-08 are not enough to satisfy Jon Milgrom '08 and the Hamilton College Exiles.   "Our goal is to prove that we are the best team in Division III rugby," says co-captain Milgrom.  They'll have their chance. 

The Hamilton College Senior Art Show 2008 will be exhibited at the Emerson Gallery from April 25-May 25. There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 25, from 4 to 6 p.m., as well as a graduation reception on Saturday, May 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. The show's exhibiting senior artists are Sandra Chiu, Andrew Decristoforo, Liz Herring, Eric Janes, Kate Porter, Miranda Raimondi, Aliya Robbins, Erin Shapiro, Lauren Shugrue, Christina Shui and Denroy Thomas. Hours for the Emerson Gallery are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi attended the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 2-6. Trivedi presented a paper, "Workers' Choices and Public Health: Maternity and Maternal Care in Bombay, 1920-1940," on a panel focused on the significance of Bombay in Indian history. Her paper explored views of government officials, social reformers and labor organizers to argue that far from being 'too superstitious' or 'too ignorant,' mill women made use of modern Western medical care when it was available to them. Through a comparison of records of Wadia Maternity Hospital, Bombay, and the Textile Labour Association, Ahmedabad, the paper demonstrated that physicians more so than union leaders approached mill women as patients capable of making good health decisions.

Associate Professor of Russian Franklin Sciacca has been accepted into a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for this summer. He will participate in the three-week program "Sources for Russian and Soviet Visual Cultures, 1860-1935: Study, Teaching, and Education" at The New York Public Library (NYPL).

The 10th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 27, on the Hamilton College campus. The Hike for Life is sponsored by the Class of 2008 and AIDS Community Resources. On-site registration will take place from 10-11 a.m. and the AIDS Hike begins at 11 a.m.

Assistant Professor of Music Heather Buchman will be interviewed on WCNY, Classic FM radio, with Bill Baker on Thursday, April 24, at noon. On Saturday, April 26, she will conduct the Society for New Music on a program of live film scores, with film, at the Everson Gallery in Syracuse. This program is the opening event of the 5th annual Syracuse International Film Festival. Classic FM, Central New York's only classical music radio stations, can be heard on WCNY-FM, 91.3 Syracuse, WUNY-FM, 89.5 Utica, and WJNY-FM, 90.9 Watertown. Listen live at http://wcny.org/.